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RUNAWAY CAR SMACKS SUPERMARKET ENTRY
The vehicle plowed through two parking lots and struck the Foodtown entrance without hitting any cars or pedestrians Friday night. (Photo courtesy of Kevin Maude) A 19-year-old Middletown man “leftContinue reading "RUNAWAY CAR SMACKS SUPERMARKET ENTRY"
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December 7th, 2009 @ 9am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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FOLEY’S WRECK CAUSED SECOND CRASH
Foley’s SUV in the Atlantic Highlands wrecking yard where it was towed after the accident. (Photo courtesy of Rumson PD) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI A motorist crashed into the telephone poleContinue reading "FOLEY’S WRECK CAUSED SECOND CRASH"
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December 3rd, 2009 @ 1pm
COUNTY EXTENDS OCEANIC TRUCK BAN
Monmouth County workers on the Oceanic Bridge this morning. Further inspections on the bridge are expected to start later this week. (Photo by Dustin Racioppi) By DUSTIN RACIOPPI Monmouth CountyContinue reading "COUNTY EXTENDS OCEANIC TRUCK BAN"
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November 16th, 2009 @ 2pm
SOMEBODY CALL A CAB?
A taxicab somehow wound up on top of the fence outside a home at Branch Avenue and Tower Hill Avenue in Red Bank at about 5:30p Sunday. No official explanationContinue reading "SOMEBODY CALL A CAB?"
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September 13th, 2009 @ 6pm
FERRARI FETISH II
For the second year in a row, the roar and flash of an estimated 75 Ferraris will overtake a stretch of Red Bank’s Broad Street on Sunday. The display ofContinue reading "FERRARI FETISH II"
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August 6th, 2009 @ 11am
AND DON’T FORGET THE MILK
Our accidental photographer came upon this scene Saturday morning on Madison Avenue in Red Bank: a car with a cryptic message we couldn’t decipher on the hood of a parkedContinue reading "AND DON’T FORGET THE MILK"
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July 20th, 2009 @ 7am
Kathy Karinja of Rumson takes a photo of the flattened gazebo at Victory Park. The bandstand at the center of the park was spared. A thunderstorm that tore through The Green Saturday afternoon pummeled the Oceanic section of Rumson while...
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August 2nd, 2008 @ 3pm
The Two River Times reports this week that publisher and advertising executive Claudia Ansorge has won a reversal of her DWI conviction. Superior Court Judge Paul Chaiet, sitting in Freehold, ruled from the bench on Wednesday that the state had...
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June 20th, 2008 @ 2pm
The temporary deck of the bridge was erected in 2004. Four years after its deck was replaced with a temporary metal structure, the West Front Street Bridge is again facing shutdown — this time so a permanent replacement can be...
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June 16th, 2008 @ 9am
Councilman John Curley tosses candy from a fire truck during the 2006 Halloween parade. Citing a "major budget crisis," Red Bank Councilman John Curley last night raised, and then backed away from, a suggestion that the borough hold off on...
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May 13th, 2008 @ 8am
A string of fatal car crashes involving teens on provisional licenses has given rise to a test program: requiring those drivers to display a golden decal on the rear windows or bumpers of their cars. Students wishing to park their...
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February 15th, 2008 @ 7am
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August 20th, 2007 @ 11am
It's not as bad as it looks. Jared Pienkos of Fair Haven, playing an insurance pitchman, took an extremely slow-mo hood spill as part of spoof video he and some friends filmed Sunday in the parking lot of Red Bank...
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July 3rd, 2007 @ 10am
Those two new electric cars we told you about last week, the ones Red Bank planned to buy to replace the three-wheeled Cushmans used by parking enforcement? It turns out they can't meet the state requirement that they be able...
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May 17th, 2007 @ 6am
Say goodbye to those Cushmans. Last month, the Red Bank Borough Council authorized the purchase of two Club Car Carryall 2 electric vehicles from golf-cart seller Vic Gerard Golf Cars. They'll replace a pair of gas-powered Cushman three-wheelers used by...
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May 11th, 2007 @ 8am
A curious figure was seen heading stiffly down the driveway to Jim Frechette’s woodworking shop off Shrewsbury Avenue Monday afternoon. Pale and dressed in white shirt and shorts, his ghostly form was accented by the dark trim of orthopedic restraint:...
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June 21st, 2006 @ 11pm
Ah, the poor, misunderstood Hummer H2. OK, so it gets 10 mpg in the city, and can't quite fit into a parking space. But it does have "water fording" capabilities. According to the official Hummer website, "The H2 can ford...
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June 3rd, 2006 @ 10am
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APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.